In this informative and well-presented volume, Professor Ivan Sascha Sheehan pulls back the curtain on the regime’s propaganda franchise. He reveals the excessive investment of funding, infrastructure, and workforce frantically trying to convince Iranians and the world not to believe their own eyes and ears. After years of trying to ignore the MEK, hoping others would do the same, regime officials now seemingly cannot stop talking about how effectively the MEK’s message and organizing efforts are empowering the national uprising. Sheehan’s research makes clear that the regime is scared, knowing that there is a blueprint and a competent political organization – run at every level by women – ready to help guide Iran to a legitimate constitutional future when the regime crumbles, just as happened with the Shah.
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Foreword by Ambassador Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr.
PART I: The Infiltration
Beware of the MEK!
The Iran Experts Initiative (IEI)
Tehran’s protectors
U.S. Congress stands firm
PART II:
Pro-democracy, anti-regime protests
Waves of social unrest rock the Islamic Republic of Iran
The MEK’s threat to a fundamentalist regime
Taking a page from Hitler’s playbook
Part III:
Disinformation and influence operations
Production of movies and TV series defacing the MEK
Publication of books against the MEK
Part IV:
Security agencies active against the MEK
Owj Arts and Media Organization
The causes of establishing Owj
Financial sources of Owj
What is Owj’s mandate?
The decisionmakers
Who is ‘Esfahani’?
The Ofogh TV Network
Part V:
From silence to attacks
The MEK’s influence
The threat of overthrow and a ’tsunami of fear’
Conclusions and policy recommendations
Appendix
U.S. Senate Letter to Secretary of Defense
U.S. House of Representatives Letter to Secretary of Defense
About the author
Iran Policy Committee (IPC)
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